“What Do You Want to Catch?”: Exploring the Maritime Cultural Landscapes of the Queenscliff Fishing Community

Maritime Culture in the Netherlands: accessing the late medieval maritime cultural landscapes of the north‐eastern Zuiderzee

“…Ford (2001: 4) summarizes a landscape as the physical environment perceptible to an individual and his or her perception of that environment. Duncan (: 7) considers the landscape as an arena within which a group's cultural interaction with the environment, other individuals and communities define and redefine cultural identity and practices and vice versa. These multiple definitions share an important perception: ‘landscape’ suggests the presence and/or influence of people.…”

“…These multiple definitions share an important perception: ‘landscape’ suggests the presence and/or influence of people. One could say that all landscapes are experienced culturally and therefore all are cultural in nature (Jasinski, : 17; Duncan, : 15).…”

Please God Send Me a Wreck

“…Methodological Approaches to Maritime Cultural Landscape Studies Duncan (2006Duncan ( , 2011 has previously outlined the scope of traditional data sources which might be utilized to explore and analyse maritime cultural landscapes, some of which are already well understood. These include the following: archaeological sites, documentary (historical and cartographic) records and anthropological (ethnography, folklore, oral historical) observations.…”

“…Oral histories therefore were clearly an important method of transmission of local histories within the township and often evidenced information that was not available through other sources of historical documentation (Duncan 2011).…”

“…However, as we will discuss further in Chap. 2, there are also important insights to be had from concepts and methods taken from studies of Indigenous maritime systems and landscapes, especially in Australia and the Pacific (Duncan 2006(Duncan , 2011. While there has been great enthusiasm for the idea of maritime cultural landscapes, in some instances this has seen a simplistic re-branding of what are still primarily descriptive archaeological site surveys of wrecks and infrastructure without any genuine attempt to understand the nature of the cultural systems which created, used and perceived these sites and places.…”